This essay is brought to you by the same crazy lady who wrote a boring and overly-detailed analysis of Alphonse Elric’s character design, and suggested an alternative to the design shown in the upcoming movie. Today I bring you my essay on automail (specifically Ed’s). I address realistic medical and engineering concerns that would be involved in its installation and everyday use.

Translation: Lots of theories and suggestions about how automail feels, the logic behind it’s design, and how it works from a medical and structural engineering point of view.

Also, there are diagrams. Fear the drawings of Edward I produce at 5 AM. Fear them.X-posted to various other communities and my personal LJ.

The thing with the rock/ledge she's sitting on is that my nice grey Copic marker crapped out on me in the midst of coloring, so I, uh... ended up using a Crayola marker. I feel like such a bad artist. :P

Okay, I'll be nice and apologise in advance to those of you who will envitably be offended by this.

After some inner debate and consultation with some friends, it has been determined that SOMEONE must say this, as quite a few people are getting annoyed with the same thing being posted over and over. Now, this is not just on this community, but EVERYWHERE. However, I am posting it here to get a general message across. If you wanna flame me, go ahead. I will laugh at you. A lot of us will.

Okay, the rules on the front page say nothing about posting Memes (If there are rules against memes, go ahead and delete this!), so I went to the The Amazing Meganame Generator to mess around. I entered Edward's name, and filled it in as appropriately as possible.